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Michaels is Editor of the ''[[World Climate Report]]'', a blog published by the "advocacy science consulting firm" [[New Hope Environmental Services]]<ref>[http://www.nhes.com/ "New Hope Environmental Services"], New Hope Environmental Services website, accessed May 2009.</ref>, which he founded and runs.
===Mission===
In an affidavit in a Vermont court case, Michaels described his firm's "mission" as being to "publicize findings on climate change and scientific and social perspectives that may not otherwise appear in the popular literature or media. This entails both response research and public commentary."<ref name="PMAffadavit">Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e5/GreenMtDoc521-3.pdf "Affidavit of Dr. Patrick J. Michaels"], United States District Court for the District of Vermont, Green Mountain Chrysler et al. v. Crombie et al., Docket No. 02:05-CV-302, July 6, 2007.(Pdf)</ref> In effect, New Hope Environmental Services is a PR firm.
===Clientele===
Michaels' firm does not disclose who its clients are, but leaked documents have revealed that several were power utilities which operate coal power stations. On a 2007 academic CV, Michaels disclosed that prior to creating his firm he had received funding from the [[Edison Electric Institute]] and the [[Western Fuels Association]]. He has also been a frequent speaker with leading coal and energy companies as well as coal and other industry lobby groups.<ref name="SEJ">[http://www.sej.org/initiatives/climate-change/patrick-michaels-cv-plain-text-file-climate-change-guideskeptics-and-cont "Patrick Michaels CV Plain Text File-Climate Change Guide/Skeptics and Contrarians"], Society of Environmental Journalists, accessed May 2009.</ref>
An internal 1995 document (pdf) of the [[Global Climate Coalition]] (GCC) -- an industry front group that disbanded in 2002 -- reviewed some of the "contrarian" arguments used by Patrick Michaels and other climate change skeptics.<ref>Andrew C. Revkin, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&am "Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate"], ''New York Times'', April 23, 2009.</ref> The document concluded that:
:...contrarian theories raise interesting questions about our total understanding of climate processes, but they do not offer convincing arguments against the conventional model of greenhouse gas emission-induced climate change. ... Michaels' questions about the temperature record are not convincing arguments against any conclusion that we are currently experiencing warming as the result of greenhouse gas emissions. ...[And] anomalies in the temperature record [do not] offer a mechanism for off-setting the much larger rise in temperature which might occur if the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases were to double or quadruple."<ref name=GCC6">Global Climate Coalition, [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/8/82/GCC_Primer_Draft.pdf "Primer on Climate Change Science· Final Draft"], January 18, 1996, pages 16-17.</ref>
== Books by Michaels==
* John Carey, "[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_33/b3896001_mz001.htm Global Warming]", ''Business Week'', August 16, 2004.
* [[Joel Achenbach]], "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html The Tempest:] As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback", ''The Washington Post Magazine'', May 28, 2006.
* Stanley Lewandowski Jr. "[httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/b/b0/Irea.pdf Memo Intermountain Rural Electric Association memo]", July 17, 2006. (This leaked memo describes IMEA's funding Michaels to the tune of $100,000 in February 2006.) (1MB PDF)
* Clayton Sandell and Bill Blakemore, "[http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/print?id=2242565 Making Money by Feeding Confusion Over Global Warming: Electric Utility Pays $100,000 to Global Warming Naysayer]", ''ABC News'', July 27, 2006.
* [http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/censorship/ Science, Climate Change, and Censorship: The Pacific Institute, Patrick Michaels, and the science of climate change]", Pacific Institute, undated, accessed July 2006.
